Six Quotes From Three Sources With One RIP

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1.
America's oldest communal passion,
its most subversive pleasure:
the ecstasy of sanctimony

2.
All that we don't know
is astonishing.
Even more astonishing
is what passes for knowing

Philip Roth
born: 3/19/33
died: 5/22/18

3.
The danger with hatred is,
once you start in on it,
you get one hundred times
more than 
you bargained for

4.
The secret of nobody's knowing
what was going on in your head,
thinking whatever
you wanted to think
with nobody's knowing—
that's where the power
and the pleasure
are to be found

5.
A poet and a novelist
have as much in common
as a jockey
and a diesel driver

6.
Mammary Envy:
a churning longing to be
utterly and blessedly hopeless,
to be a big breathless bag of tissue,
acted upon instead of acting,
hanging there, as a breast hangs
and is there 


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Footnotes
The first four quotes are from THE HUMAN STAIN

The fifth quote is from MY LIFE AS A MAN

The sixth quote is from  THE BREAST

To refer to Philip Roth  as an iconic American  Novelist
is like referring to the sun as a big yellow ball. 

Rest in peace, Mr. Roth
and give my everlasting love
to all the usual suspects.
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